APDU Bi-Weekly – March 30, 2023

March 30, 2023

FEATURE

Give Feedback: Census Bureau Considering Dropping Ancestry Question

The Census Bureau has a Federal Register Notice due on April 7 for authorization for revisions to the American Community Survey. The addition of White and Black or African American write-in lines in the race question led the Census Bureau to research redundancies between data collected from the improved race question and the ancestry question. Findings from this research may lead the Census Bureau to recommend the removal of the ancestry question from the American Community Survey.

This revision has implications for many users of the American Community Survey. If you have concerns that you’d like to share with decision-makers, please consider writing a letter in response to this notice by April 7, 2023.

Early Registration Now Open: 2023 APDU Annual Conference

July 25 – 26, 2023

Amazon Skills Center, 1550-G Crystal Drive, Arlington, VA 22202

Registration is now open for the early bird rates for the 2023 APDU Annual Conference. There are a limited number of seats so get registered early!

Public data doesn’t need to just refer to the federal statistical system: there is a universe of publicly available data coming from a variety of sources including state and local governments and nonprofits. There is an opportunity to unlock the value of public data by examining its multidimensionality across federal, state, and local levels. Come to APDU’s 2023 Annual Conference to explore this expanding universe of public data!

Using Data to Explore the Impact of Green Space on Communities

April 17, 2023

3:00 PM – 4:00 PM ET

The Massive Data Institute at Georgetown’s McCourt School of Public Policy recently hosted a Green Space Data Challenge, which provided participants with an opportunity to create or improve indicators involving green space to better understand and measure community impact. Each project was evaluated by expert judges from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), USDA-Forest Service, Urban Health Collaborative at Drexel University, and the Spatial Analysis Lab at the University of Vermont. Winning efforts will be announced in late March and will share their work with APDU.

NEWS

A Government Report Says WFH Is Dying Out. A Remote Work Guru Says That’s False

Department of Commerce Launches Regional Economic Research Initiative

Economic Census, Other Surveys Provide Payroll Statistics

Lower Percentage of Private Sector Employees Teleworked Last Year, but Practice Is Here to Stay in Some Businesses: Poll

New Guidance From the Commerce Department for Anyone Who Deals With Data

Privacy Fears Stymie Government Surveyors as Responses Dive

The Census Bureau Gets a Report Card on How It Learns Its Lessons

U.S. Government Rethinking Race, Ethnicity Classifications

Who Lives in Rural America? How Data Shapes (And Misshapes) Conceptions of Diversity in Rural America

Why Federal LGBTQI+ Data Collection Should Concern State, Local Officials

COVID-19 NEWS

How the COVID-19 Pandemic Disrupted the Reemployment Services and Eligibility Assessment Program

Three Years Later: What Have We Learned from COVID-19?

Why the COVID-19 Death Rate Varies Dramatically Across the U.S. 

NEW AND UPDATED DATA SOURCES

Census Bureau Launches Broadband Dashboard

Department of Commerce Launches Regional Economic Research Initiative

NSF and 5 Other U.S. Agencies Launch Program to Build an Integrated Data and Knowledge Infrastructure

Updated Statistics Measure Foreign and Domestic Content Embedded in U.S. Exports

DATA VISUALIZATION

Map: Oil and Gas Spills in the U.S. Since 2010

APDU EVENTS

Using Data to Explore the Impact of Green Space on Communities

April 17, 2023

3:00 PM – 4:00 PM ET

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APDU 2023 Annual Conference

July 25 – 26, 2023

Arlington, VA

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UPCOMING WEBINARS

Census Bureau

The 2010 Demonstration Data Products Suite – Redistricting Data and DHC

April 6, 2023

3:00 PM – 4:00 PM ET

Census Bureau 

Researching Formal Privacy for the Census Bureau’s County Business Patterns Program

April 20, 2023

3:00 PM– 4:00 PM ET

Census Bureau

Exploring Census Data: Emergency Management

May 25, 2023

2:00 PM – 3:00 PM ET

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EVENTS

Population Association of America

PAA 2023 Annual Meeting

April 12 – 15, 2023

New Orleans, LA

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USDA

2023 Spring Data Users’ Meeting

April 18, 2023

Omaha, NE

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DATA PUBLICATIONS

GOVERNMENT

Bureau of Economic Analysis

• Arts and Cultural Production Satellite Account, U.S. and States, 2021
• U.S. Current-Account Deficit Widens in 2022

Bureau of Justice Statistics

• HIV in Prisons, 2021 – Statistical Tables

Bureau of Labor Statistics

• January Jobless Rates Down Over the Year in 297 of 389 Metro Areas; Payroll Jobs up in 135
• Commissioner Beach Reflects on the Future of Statistics
• Consumer Price Index up 0.4 Percent Over the Month, 6.0 Percent Over the Year, in February 2023
• Employment in Midland, Texas, up 11.4 Percent From January 2022 to January 2023
• Highlights of Women’s Earnings in 2021
• Import Prices From Canada Down 10.3 Percent Over Year Ended February 2023
• Nevada’s Employment Increased 6.0 Percent Over the Year Ended January 2023
• Real Average Hourly Earnings Down 1.3 Percent From February 2022 to February 2023
• Total Factor Productivity Decreases 1.2% In 2022, Following a 4.0% Increase in 2021
• Unemployment Rate for Gulf War-Era II Veterans Declines to 3.1 Percent in 2022
• U.S. Export Prices Decreased 0.8 Percent From February 2022 to February 2023
• What Is BLS Doing to Maintain Data Quality as Response Rates Decline?

Bureau of Transportation Statistics

• Full Year 2022 U.S. Airline Traffic Data
• North American Transborder Freight up 10.6% in January 2023 from January 2022
• Pandemic Alters Profile of U.S.-North America Trade and Border Crossings

Census Bureau

• 2021 Annual Capital Expenditures for Robotic Equipment
• Basketball Madness Has College Towns Buzzing
• Business Trends and Outlook Survey Data Release
• Census Bureau Announces Schedule Updates for 2020 Census Data Products
• Disclosure Avoidance and the 2020 Census: How the Top Down Algorithm Works
• Disclosure Avoidance and the 2020 Census Redistricting Data: What Data Users Need to Know
• Is There a Retail Health Clinic Near You?
• Losing Our Parents
• Racial Identification for the Self-Reported Hispanic or Latino Population: 2010 and 2020 Census
• Why the Census Bureau Chose Differential Privacy

Economic Research Service

• ERS Annual Report, FY 2022
• Oil Crops Yearbook
• U.S. Food Imports

Energy Information Administration

• Annual Energy Outlook 2023
• EIA Projects That U.S. Energy-Related CO2 Emissions Will Fall Through 2050 in AEO2023
• Europe Was the Main Destination for U.S. LNG Exports in 2022
• Renewable Generation Surpassed Coal and Nuclear in the U.S. Electric Power Sector in 2022
• Residential Retail Electric Choice Participation Rate Has Leveled off Since 2019
• The Majority of U.S. Households Used Natural Gas in 2020
• Waste-To-Energy Plants Are a Small but Stable Source of Electricity in the United States
• U.S. Petroleum Product Exports Set a Record High in 2022

Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis

• Indian Country Gains Momentum in Addressing Data Gaps

Government Accountability Office

• Women in the Workforce: Underrepresentation in Management Positions Persists, and the Gender Pay Gap Varies by Industry and Demographics

National Center for Education Statistics

• Overview of the Middle Grades Longitudinal Study of 2017–18 (MGLS:2017): Technical Report

National Center for Health Statistics

• Colon Cancer Deaths in the United States: 1999-2021
• Financial Burden of Medical Care Among Veterans Aged 25–64, by Health Insurance Coverage: United States, 2019–2021
• Maternal Mortality Rates in the United States, 2021
• QuickStats: Age-Adjusted Percentage of Adults Aged ≥18 Years with Serious Psychological Distress During the Past 30 Days, by Family Income — National Health Interview Survey, 2021

National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics

• Businesses Invested $32.5 Billion in Assets to Support Their R&D Activities in the United States in 2020
• Women Made Up Over a Quarter of All Business R&D Employees in 2020

MEDIA 

Taylor & Francis Online – Statistics and Public Policy

• What Protects the Autonomy of the Federal Statistical Agencies? An Assessment of the Procedures in Place to Protect the Independence and Objectivity of Official U.S. Statistics

NONPROFITS & FOUNDATIONS

American Enterprise Institute

• Reimagining Labor Market Information a National Collaborative For Local Workforce Information

KFF 

• Key Data on Health and Health Care by Race and Ethnicity

Washington Center for Equitable Growth

• Executive Actions to Modernize Federal Data Collection and Improve Measurements of U.S. Economic Inequality

FEDERAL RULEMAKING AND CALLS FOR COMMENT

APDU maintains a list of open calls for comment on proposed federal data collections. We periodically alert APDU members to newly added calls for comment. 

Over the last several weeks, calls for comment on the following proposed data collections were published in the Federal Register (with due date):

Bureau of Economic Analysis

• Expenditures Incurred by Recipients of Biomedical Research and Development Awards From the National Institutes of Health (NIH) (May 22, 2023)

Bureau of Justice Statistics

• Annual Survey of Jails in Indian Country (SJIC) (April 14, 2023)
• Annual Survey of Jails (ASJ) (April 24, 2023)
• Survey of State Criminal History Information Systems (SSCHIS) (May 22, 2023)

Bureau of Labor Statistics

• Bureau of Labor Statistics Occupational Safety and Health Statistics Cooperative Agreement Application Package. (April 20, 2023)
• National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1997 (May 2, 2023)
• Occupational Requirements Survey (April 24, 2023)

Bureau of Transportation Statistics

• Electric Vehicle Inventory and Use Survey (eVIUS) (May 5, 2023)
• Ocean Shipping Reform Act of 2022 (OSRA 22) (April 10, 2023)
• Report of Traffic and Capacity Statistics—The T-100 System (April 17, 2023)

Census Bureau

• Census Household Panel (April 7, 2023)
• Census Military Panel (April 7, 2023)
• Housing Vacancy Survey (April 23, 2023)
• National Survey of Children’s Health (April 9, 2023)
• Population Estimates Challenge Program (April 24, 2023)
• The American Community Survey and the Puerto Rico Community Survey (April 9, 2023)

Institute for Education Sciences

• Evaluation of Strategies to Address Unfinished Learning in Math (ReSolve Math Study) (April 17, 2023)

National Agricultural Statistics Service

• 2023 Census of Aquaculture (April 17, 2023)
• 2023 Irrigation and Water Management Survey (April 17, 2023)
• Current Agricultural Industrial Reports (CAIR) (April 3, 2023)

National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics

• Survey of Earned Doctorates (April 19, 2023)

National Science Foundation

• Grantee Reporting Requirements for the Industry-University Cooperative Research Centers (IUCRC) Program (April 11, 2023)

National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics

• Initial Proposals For Updating OMB’s Race and Ethnicity Statistical Standards (April 12, 2023)
• Survey of Graduate Students and Postdoctorates in Science and Engineering (April 18, 2023)